Grain-loader



No. 620,492. I Patented Feb. 28, I899.- M. L. PAGE-. GRAIN LUADEB.

(Applica tion filed Nov 22, 1898.) (No Model.) 2 Shets-Sheet l.

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No. 620,492. Patented Feb. 28, I899. u. L. PAGE.

GRAIN LOADERJ (Application filed Nov. 22, 189 8.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Shut 2.

a INENTOR ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARCUS L. PAGE, OF KYTE RIVER, ILLINOIS.

G RAlN-LOADER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 620,492, dated February 28, 1899.

Application filed November 22, 1898. Serial No. 697,213. (No model.)

tion of a simple device for loading grain from elevators into cars through the door of the latter, filling the car, if necessary, witho ut the assistance of manual labor. This result I accomplish by employing a distributing-fan which throws thegrain delivered to it by the elevator-spout to the end of the car, at the same time drying and scouring the grain.

By crossing the drive-belt the direction of rotation in the distributing-fan is changed, and the grain may then be projected in a contrary direction therefrom.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my grain-loader, showing in dotted lines a portion of a storage grainelevator building and a car with the loader in position to distribute the grain in the car when the same isdelivered from the elevator. Fig. 2 is aplan view of my loader. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 4 is an outer end elevation; Fig. 5, a transverse vertical section on dotted line 0000, Fig. 3; and Fig. 6 is a longitudinal vertical section through the distributing-fan and its housing. I

Like letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts throughout the several views.

A is the main frame of the loader.

A are openings forming means for securing the frame A to supports in the elevatorbuilding.

B is a shaft mounted in journal-bearings B on the frame A.

B is a drive-pulley fixed on the shaft B, at one end thereof, outside the frame A. O is a distributing-fan keyed to the opposite end of the shaft B. This fan has the four radial arms 0, provided with the blades 0 at their outer ends.

D is the housing for the distributing-fan C. D is the curved bottom of said housing.

D is a feed-chute into which the elevatorspout discharges. The chute D directs the grain into the fan-housing D and deposits it upon the curved bottom D in the path of the blades C D are the discharge-openingsfor the grain in each side of the housing D. The curves of the two edges of the bottom D are not uniform, the side nearest the chute D describing a smaller circle than the outer edge. The inner edge of the curving bottom D thus rises higher at the discharge-openings D than the outer edge, the consequence being that the stream of grain issuing forth from the discharge-openings D is directed diagonally across the car, and while the end of the loader projects but a little way within the car-door the grain will be loaded evenly'and the car entirely filled.

E are supporting stay-rods. E are hooks for attaching them to the carrier near to its outer end, and E is one of two similar hooks for attaching the opposite ends of the supporting-rods E to the elevator-building.

F is the car to be loaded. The loader has no connection with the car, merely projecting inward through the car-door, being supported entirely by the elevator-building.

G is the elevator-building.

G is the grain-spout, communicating with one of the bins within the elevator-building.

G2 is a support for the inner end of the frame A. It is of any common construction, and while'I have shown it extending from the ceiling downward it may obviously be secured to the floor. The frame A issecured to the support G2 by bolts G (only one of which is shown,) extending through the openings A in the frame A.

H is a driving-belt for the pulley B by means of which motion is imparted to the distributing-fan O.

.In operation my loader is secured by the bolts G3 and the supporting rods E to the elevator-buildin g, the drive-belt H placed on the pulley B and grain admitted through the" to the length of the shaft B, but diagonally forward, filling the entire end of the car. When it is desirable to discharge the grain into the opposite end of the car, the drivebelt H is crossed, thus causing the distributing-fan O to be rotated in the opposite direction. I find that this process not only loads the grain without the assistance of hand labor, but cleans and brightens it as well.

I claim as my invention 1. In a grain-loader, in combination, a main frame, a shaft, means for rotating said shaft, a distributing-fan on the shaft, a curved plate one edge of which plate describes the arc of a smaller circle than the other edge, and means for conducting grain to the curved plate.

2. In a grain-loader, in combination, a main frame, a shaft, means for rotating said shaft, a distributing-fan on the shaft, a housing for said fan, having a discharge-opening in said housing, a curved plate in said housing, one edge of which plate describes the arc of a smaller circle than the other edge, a chute for conducting the grain to the fan, and means for supporting the mainframe.

3. In a grain-loader, in combination, a main frame, a shaft, means for rotating said shaft, a distributing-fan on the shaft, a housing for said fan, having a discharge-opening in said housing, a curved plate in said housing beneath said fan, one edge of which plate describes the arc of a smaller circle than the other edge, and a chute for conducting the grain to the curved plate.

4. In a grain-loader, in combination, a main frame, a shaft, means for rotating said shaft, a distributing-fan on the shaft, a housing for the fan, having a discharge-opening in said housing, and a curved plate in the housing, one edge of which plate describes the arc of a smaller circle than the other edge.

5. In a grain-loader, in combination, a main frame, a shaft, means for rotating said shaft, a distributing-fan fixed on the shaft, a housing for the fan having discharge-openings in said housing, a curved plate in the housing, a chute for conducting the grain to the curved plate, and rods and a supporting-bracket for holding the main frame in position.

6. In a grain-loader, in combination, a main frame, a shaft, a pulley on said shaft, a distributing-fan fixed on said shaft, a curved plate adjacent to said fan, one edge of which plate describes the arc of a smaller circle than the other edge, a housing for said fan, having a discharge-opening in the housing at each end of the said plate, a chute for conducting the grain to the curved plate, and

rods and a supporting-bracket for holding the main frame in position.

MARCUS L. PAGE. Witnesses:

LINN A. COOPER, FRANK I'I. SPATH. Y 

